What to Do and Not to Do When Localizing: Three Case Studies

Mark Olmsted
7 min readFeb 16, 2023
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You’d think that more thinking would go into the use of foreign languages in films and TV shows in an era of media globalization, but there is an epidemic of illogic in so many streaming series that it can severely mar the viewing experience of anyone, like me, who has a thing for believability.

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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.